Dr. Zhongguo Xiong
Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiolgy
Associate Professor

Forbes Building 204
Phone: (602)621-9869
Email: zxiong@ag.arizona.edu
 

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Background and Interests
 
Zhongguo Xiong received a Ph.D. in 1988 from Kansas State University. He also has a Master's Degree in Plant Pathology which he received from the University of Florida. Here at the University of Arizona he teaches Molecular Plant Virology, Biology and Characterization of Plant Pathogenic Agents, and Microcomputing Applications. His research interests include RNA virus replication, RNA silencing and its applications in genetically engineered resistance to virus infection, genome typing of plant viruses using oligonucleotide microarrays, and plant-virus interactions. (To see a list of selected publications, please see below)

 
Publications
 

Nadeem, A., Xiong, Z. and Nelson, M. R. 1999. Induction of mild strains of pepper mottle virus by chemical mutagenesis and their efficacy in cross protection. Pakistan J. Bio Sci. 2(4):1317-1321.

Yang, T. W., Yang, Y. A., and Xiong, Z. 2000. Paternal inheritance of chloroplast DNA in interspecifc hybrids in the genus Larrea (Zygophyllaceae). American Journal of Botany 87(10), 1452-1458.

Olsen, M., Matheron, M., McClure, M., and Xiong, Z. 2000. Diseases of citrus in Arizona.
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/diseases/az1154.pdf

Solofoharivelo, M. C., Weng, Z., and Xiong, Z. 2001. Suppression by potato virus Y (PVY) of posttranscriptional gene silencing mediated by red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) sequence. Phytopathology 91:S83

Weng, Z, and Xiong, Z. 2001. Resistance to red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) mediated by posttranscriptional gene silencing. Phytopathology 91:S94.

Weng, Z., and Xiong, Z. 2002. Small RNA production and transgene methylation in gene silenced transgenic plants expressing sequence of red clover necrotic mosaic virus. Phytopathology 92:S86.

Weng, Z., and Xiong, Z. 2004. Three nucleotides of the 3' stem-loop structure of red clover necrotic mosaic virus RNA genome are critical for template recognition. Journal of Virology (accepted)

Acoata-leal, R., and Xiong, Z. 2004. Mechanism of tobacco vam resistance gene against potato virus Y infection. Molecuar Plant-Microbe Interaction (accepted)

Langham, R., and Xiong, Z. 2004. Functional domains of saguaro cactuc virus replication protein identified by site-directed mutagenesis. Virology (accepted)

 



 

       
 
 


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